#Review - Revenge & Rapture by Deborah Wilde #Fantasy

Series: The Jezebel Files # 4
Format: Kindle, 338 pages
Release Date: October 4, 2020
Publisher: Te Da Media Inc.
Source: Kindle Unlimited

Genre: New Adult / Fantasy

 Ash is tightening the noose on her enemies…
… and losing her grip on reality.

Ash’s revenge plans for Chariot and Isaac Montefiore take a surreal turn when Isaac’s wife hires Ash to retrieve an item that Isaac is obsessed with finding. Ash takes the job, but this quest throws her back into Levi’s path and puts Rafael in grave danger.

Meanwhile, Ash runs across a crime victim who possesses mysterious magic. Ash’s search for the attacker once again pits her against the Queen of Hearts and sends Ash down the rabbit hole of what’s real. Sanity is highly overrated, anyway, right?

To top it all off, Ash’s mother is being blackmailed by someone threatening to expose Ash as a Rogue unless Talia resigns from her political career for good. Talk about putting the “fun” in family dysfunction.

 

Revenge and Rapture is the fourth and final installment in author Deborah Wilde's The Jezebel Files. 28-year old Ashira Cohen is a Jezebel blessed with magic by the Goddess Asherah for the express purpose of stopping the men and women of the  organization known as Chariot from achieving immortality. Jezebel's like Ash having been fighting Chariot for 400 years. Ash took over the job a little more than 4 months ago when her predecessor died. The story picks up several months after Shadows and Surrender. 

 

Ash is in the battle for her life against Chariot, but there are many issues that she will need to address throughout this story alone before she can finally address their threat. While she and her handler Rafael hold (2) of the Sefer scrolls that are supposedly protected, there's one missing. We now know the identity of one of the 10 members of Chariot thanks to what happened in the previous installment. Ash and her boss/lover/pain in the rear end Levi Montefiore are on the "outs", and the tension between them could be cut with a knife.

 

Ash's best friend Priya is caught in the middle now that she's working for House Pacifica. Which makes it more difficult for them to all work together as part of Team Jezebel to "end" Chariot. Chariot is also very likely to know who Ash is now. So, between her Team Jezebel foray, and her Cohen Investigations gig, Ash learns that her mother, Talia, is being blackmailed by someone who apparently has a video that shows Ash, who is supposed to be a mundane, but really does have magic, using magic. Ash needs to find out quickly who the blackmailer is before Talia has to resign her lucrative job.

 

Confused? Don't be. In order for Ash to keep her license as a PI, she has to play at being mundane. If the fact that she has magic goes public, she loses her license and her income. That's why she agreed to work with her childhood nemesis, Levi. To make things even more interesting, Levi's mother, Nicola claims she wants Ash to help her divorce her husband Isaac and Rafael ends up on the wrong end up a magical trap that sets Ash on a journey to find a cure before Rafael is taken out of the game and is unable to help bring down Chariot. 

 

Once again, the most interesting characters in this book are Queen of Hedon and her secret that Ash uncovers while searching for answers to help Rafael; Moran and the fact that he's not all that scary, especially when Ash's dog Mrs. Watson is around him; and Arkady Choi who has a whole lot of secrets and needs to come clean if anyone is going to ever trust him again. Especially Miles Berenbaum who he has feelings or. The only real negative I have to offer is the showdown between Isaac and Ash's Team Jezebel. 

 

Sure Isaac is the villain, but he's really done nothing on screen that has impressed me. That and the fact that Ash's team far exceeds the power that Chariot allegedly had at their finger tips. The most interesting part of this book, shocking enough, was the ending when the group gets together for Karaoke. It shows a bit of maturity on Ash's part too that she finally turns into a team player and not a menace to society. The last part of this book, especially the ending, proves that forgiveness is the quickest route to sexy times.

Amazon | Barnes & Noble